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A big part of the conveyancing process is the conveyancing searches. This section tells you all about them. What they are, how and when to order them and how to interpret the results. Each search has its own guide and you'll see they are separated into Standard (should be done in every case), Regional (area specific) and Optional (not essential but often useful tools for the would be purchaser). All buyers should beware that when you buy a property, the law assumes that you have seen the information that would have been revealed by searches whether or not you have actually carried them out, so you buy the property subject to the results.
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The property developer that has built a housing estate on land adjacent to my drive offered to give me a strip of land (1.5 metres wide)along my drive. The context is that there is a reasonable possibility that this strip will be declared a public footpath.
They wish to place restrictive covenants on this strip to the general effect that nothing will be done on it to annoy the householders. Of course I have no intention to annoy the householders and I feel that the covenant is unnecessary and that if such a covenant is to be included it should be mutual rather than one sided. (I should emphasise that there is no reason to believe that I would cause a problem to my new neighbours - it appears to be a standard clause). The covenant would apply to the whole of my property and adds a level of bureaucracy and potentially cost that might discourage future purchasers. The transfer of land was initiated by the property company and I agreed to it verbally but no mention of restrictive covenants was made at that point.
I would be interested in a general comment on the legitimacy of such moves on the part of sellers. I would have thought that restrictions on the activities carried out on the land. e.g building would be covered by normal planning consents etcetera and that an unequal covenant is unnecessary.
Hi,
Thanks for your query. It isn't unusual for such a covenant to be imposed in this situation. Ultimately there is no obligation on you to accept the transfer or on the developer to make it so it is a matter.of negotiation